Egyptian mythology in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona games Rodrigo B. Salvador Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart; Stuttgart, Germany. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Tübingen, Germany. Email:
[email protected] Shin Megami Tensei is a Japanese RPG series were completely ignored: Persona 4 Arena, famous for its monsters, which are taken from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Persona Q: Shadow of many different mythologies and folkloric the Labyrinth, Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Just legends from around the world. The player can to situate the games, P1, P2-IS and P2-EP were “capture” these monsters and use them in battle released for the PlayStation respectively in in a very Pokémon-like manner. In the Shin 1996, 1999 and 2000 (Japanese dates). Megami Tensei: Persona “sub-series”, more Curiously, P1 also had a later port to Microsoft specifically these monsters are called Windows. Both P3 and P4 were released for the “personas” (although some were called PlayStation 2, respectively in 2006 and 2008. All “demons” in the first three games). Since I am of the games eventually found their way into fascinated by monsters, mythologies and games, Sony’s handheld consoles too. I decided to take a closer look at how my favorite Below, all the Egyptian gods and goddesses mythology, the ancient Egyptian, is represented featured in the Persona games are listed in the Persona games. alphabetically (a summary can be found on For the present study, the following games Table 1). My original intention was only to were analyzed (the abbreviation in parenthesis include personas, but I decided to also include are used throughout the whole text): the so-called demons, since there are only two Revelations: Persona, also known by the of them.